An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets - fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often elemental: boulders and smaller rocks, the sea, smoke or fog, and a garden. The man is on an odyssey following his love. But he must first, as the sonnet says, know what conscience is. So, before he can be united with his love, he must purify himself. He does so, bathing a tattooed figure (an angel, perhaps) and humbling himself in front of this being. He also prepares himself with water and through his journey and his meditations. Finally, he is united with his fair friend. (J Hailey)
A British Film Institute production in association with Channel Four 1985, 80 minutes, hi-fi stereo
A film by Derek Jarman, with original soundtrack composed by Coil.
Jarman himself described the film as:
"a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence."
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"Enochian Calling", "Angelic Stations" and a few other tracks use samples from How to Destroy Angels. "Never" was previously released in a shorter form on Unnatural History and the mysterious compilation Less Than Angels.
There exists a first pressing which has the disc printed black with a clear blackground on gold CD and which is limited to 1000 copies.
All subsequent discs are printed black with a white background.
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